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Update from @ljdawson (self.syncforlemmy)

submitted 1 week ago by Eideen to c/syncforlemmy

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I reach out to @[email protected] via [email protected]:

Hey,

Nope just been a little snowed under. Hoping to get an update out over the holidays.

Cheers @[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That method was fine with the old Sync, when it was a low one-time payment, but the new payment scheme came with a promise that it was going to be a full time development. After a year of paying for features I still didn't have, I've switched off of Sync and cancelled my subscription

[–] Maalus 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah seen it a mile away. Like, you can't live off of 10 subscribers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm betting he had way more than 10. There was a flood of people that signed up when he initially released it, and even today, after a year of "meh to abandoned" effort and a dozen other excellent lemmy apps, lemmy.world is still seeing 5k sync users/month.

It probably wasent "living indoors" money on its own, but surely 1-2k/month is worth spending a few hours a month on keeping an app updated, right? That was what he was promising when he shifted to the subscription model, but old habits die hard I guess.

[–] Maalus 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sync is mostly free, so those 5k users most likely are running that. I know I am. 1-2k a month is pennies when you are a programmer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The median wage for a programmer in the US is right at 100k. 1-2k/month is 12-24k/yr.

I cant think of a single person who thinks 12-24% of their yearly salary is "pennies."

Either way, those "pennies" came with a commitment. He could have done a low one time cost like sync for reddit and faffed about, but instead he committed to subscription payments, and those carry an expectation of support and features. As a programmer, he know this.

The simple fact is that people are paying for something they aren't getting.